Apple pie muffins!

The apple pie muffins are amazing! They made the house smell so good and the muffins themselves were just yummy! The recipe came from http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/. Highly recommended!

Hershey and food

Spent last weekend in Hershey, PA for family birthday party. Grandma is turning 80 and Grandpa is turning 85. It was fun, but family wears me out.... There is a bit of tension between some of the family, but it was really good to see everyone, because no matter what, they are family and I love them! The drive was beautiful, the trees are starting to turn and it was a gorgeous day. Had a great time spending the weekend with Hubby and little man. It was really nice to get out of town and get a change of perspective. On Saturday there is a big fleamarket outside of town, there are lots of Amish farmers and bakers and we ate ourselves silly on whoopie pies, cookies, and cake!

Work is a little frustrating this week, sometimes the politics just get to me. When it got too bad this week, I just thought about the yummy recipes I was going to try this week: roasted cauliflower soup, apple pie muffins, and maybe some chocolate cupcakes! Speaking of, time to preheat the oven!

Food, food, and more yummy food!

The past couple of weeks, hubby and I have been tossing around the idea of opening up a restaurant in the retirement stage of life, granted that is not for around 20 years, but it is best to plan early! Just some fun, nothing to serious, but we love to cook and entertain, so why not?

We have been trying different recipes out and learning to do some basic things. One of the first was fresh whipped cream and homemade caramel sauce. Amazing! The caramel sauce is so good drizzled on ice cream, brownies, pretty much anything we could fine.

Also made a wonderful roast tomato soup, homemade macaroni and cheese, and some tasty cube steak sandwiches. It has been a really good food month! I will post any recipes that are amazing!

Been awhile....

OK, it has been a couple of months since the last post. I can't believe this summer has just flown by, it is already almost October!!! I am happy that the heat is going away, I love fall!

The weight loss journey is at a stall right now. I just can't bring myself to start up WW again. So, I am trying to be mindful about what I am eating and exercising. My goal is to maintain where I am now until I am focused on losing again.

Work is work, nothing too interesting, sometimes I feel like I am back in highschool though (and I did not really like highschool). We are supposed to get a new Tower Ladder truck soon, that will be awesome to be on and play with!

Family is great, little man started preschool (can't believe it!), he loves it! Darling Husband ruptured his Achilles tendon a couple weeks ago, so it has been a very interesting and challenging couple of weeks.

That is all for this post, the next one is going to talk about the food we are trying!

May 31

OK, my first weight goal has been accomplished, 20 pounds down!!!! I am very excited! Also bought my reward books, read Kiss of Snow this morning....words cannot describe how much I loved this book. It was fantastic! Nalini Singh has created the most amazing world and her characters incredible.

Well, since the book rewards have been working pretty good for me, I am going to continue on (I still have 20 -25 pounds more to go!). I will post some more titles next week.

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Ever feel like the world and the population in general woke up this morning determined to tick you off or grind your last nerve? That is the kind of day it is today. Nothing specific has happened, just irritating in general. I am going to try and limit my interactions with people, until the grumpiness has gone away. It is for the best.

Catch up

Well, it has been over a month since the last post.Busy, busy things going on, nothing too interesting, but time has just flown by. I blink and 2 weeks have gone by! At the beginning of April, I went to an awesome girls weekend in the OBX, love you ladies!!! We had a blast, danced and got crazy the first night, the next day, realized that we just can't hang like in college, so we lazed around most of the day and just talked. It was so great to spend some quality time with my besties!

No new adventures at work, I am currently going through a phase where I keep doing things not efficiently and it is starting to really piss me off. Might be time for a couple of days off. Between the deadlines for my current EMS stuff, new EMS stuff that I am doing, an Instructor 1 class, an ARFF DPO class, trying to study for an EMT Instructor test, and trying to keep track of it all, my brain has decided to check out. Hopefully things will ease up a bit in the next couple of weeks.

Weight loss is going OK, not great, but I haven't gained any back so that is good. I have readjusted my goals a bit, my goal for May 31 is now 20 pounds (instead of 25lbs), honestly, I will be thrilled to hit 20, because that means I lost 20 LBS!!!!!! My newest obsession is Jillian Michael's DVDs (I know that I am about 5 years behind that phenomena, better late than never), I rotate through Kettle bells, Yoga Meltdown, and 30 day Shred. It is awesome, and of course I am going to have to get No More Trouble Zones, and her newest Ripped. I have also read a couple of her books, some decent information. So, I am rotating those at home and at work it is all about bike, an nice quick arm weight work out, and the treadmill. I started incorporating some jogging into the treadmill routine and it feels great (my butt is super sore that night)! My next goal is the Army 10 miler in Oct. I am not looking to make any speed records, just finish and enjoy the run.

I am off to figure out when our dryer is going to get fixed, cause really, hanging the clothes to dry got old 10 days ago!